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Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory' [125r] (249/340)
The record is made up of 1 file (168 folios). It was created in 29 Dec 1930-15 Jun 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Please see the correspondence attached
regarding a complaint by a Mr. Khonji, a Persian
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subject, against the Sheikh of Bahrein. There are
important lacunae, but the position appears to be
that Mr. Khonji in 1921 established an ice
factory
An East India Company trading post.
in
Bahrein - he alleges on the suggestion of the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
- and was granted a monopoly for five
years; that the present Ruler (then Heir Apparent)
entered into partnership with him about 1922 on a
fifty-fifty basis as regards capital, profit and
loss; that the five-year period of the monopoly
expired about 1927, and that the partners agreed that
Mr. Khonji should thereafter carry on alone, bearing
losses and taking profits. The machinery consists
of two duplicate freezing plants. About July 1930
one of the two Bahrein Municipalities appears to have
offered to buy out the Sheikh, subject to a
monopoly for five years, on terms. The Sheikh,
before closing with this offer, gave Mr. Khonji the
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option of buying him out on the same terms. He was
met by a counter offer and, in the absence of
agreement, finally accepted the offer made to him by
the Municipality. The latter entered on the Sheikh's
share of the property, worked the joint property, for
a period (in respect of which they are prepared to
share profits with Mr. Khonji), and now propose to
remove their share of the plant elsewhere, leaving
Mr, Khonji - who, in view of the monopoly granted to
the Municipality, can no longer mate^r sell ice in
Bahrein - to do as he thinks fit with his share. An
offer by Mr, Khonji to repurchase the SJieikh's share
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This file contains papers relating to a legal dispute between Yusuf Lutfally Khunji and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain. The case concerns a joint venture between the aforementioned parties to set up and operate an ice-making plant in Bahrain at a spring owned by Mr. Khunji in 1922. Following the expiration of a five year monopoly on the manufacture and sale of ice in Bahrain, the two parties fell into a dispute on the plant.
The majority of the papers consist of legal correspondence between Mr Khunji's lawyers in Manchester and either the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain or the Financial Advisor to the Ruler of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. Of note, however, are letters of intervention by the Foreign Minister of Iran through the Persian Legation in London, protesting the treatment of a Persian subject in British protected territory.
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- 1 file (168 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 170; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Title
- Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:12v, 14r:19v, 21r:24v, 26r:27v, 30r:41v, 45r:48v, 52r:52v, 55r:55v, 57r:90v, 93r:105v, 108r:109v, 111r:114v, 124r:127v, 164r:166v, 169r:169v, back-i, back
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